Goodfellas

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

It's the 25th anniversary of Goodfellas.
IMO one of the greatest films ever made.
Godfather and GF II are great, with no equal, but Scorsese made a different gangster film with Goodfellas.
Anyway, some of the cast got together at Tribeca to watch the film and discuss it. There was a Q&A with Jon Stewart.
Pesci and Scorsese were absent.

Stars of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas attend special 25th anniversary screening | Daily Mail Online

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Pesci taken to what he thought was Tribeca but was instead just an empty room.

 

[Songbird]

Could Ray Liotta play The Joker?

 

[93Devil]

Pesci taken to what he thought was Tribeca but was instead just an empty room.

And that's that.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

I would say it holds up better than the Godfather movies, which I also love.

I watched it very recently. Michael Imperioli was on WTF recently and was talking about what it was like filming that and how intimidating it was to be working with Pesci and DeNiro when he was so young. After the interview, I had to watch it again. It had been a few years, but it's still every bit as outstanding as it ever was.

 

[93Devil]

Amazing soundtrack as well.

 

[Songbird]

 

[Webster]

What happened to Pesci? I know he didn't do much between Raging Bull and the Lethal Weapon 2/Goodfellas time. Then it seemed like he was everywhere for about 5-7 years and then he basically disappeared after Casino/the last Lethal Weapon.

 

[RubberSoul1979]

Still can't believe Henry Hill was the crook who "partnered" with those Boston College players to shave points.

 

[MisterCreosote]

What happened to Pesci? I know he didn't do much between Raging Bull and the Lethal Weapon 2/Goodfellas time. Then it seemed like he was everywhere for about 5-7 years and then he basically disappeared after Casino/the last Lethal Weapon.

Pretty sure he retired from acting shortly after the last Lethal Weapon.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

He retired in 1999 and I think has only done cameos, small parts or Snickers commercials since.

His bio said he starred in some movie in 2010 that I've never heard of.

He was never one of those guys who worked a ton, even after Raging Bull. I'm assuming that was by choice.

Right after Lethal Weapon 2/Goodfellas/Home Alone, he worked a ton, but most of those look like big paycheck films. It looks like a mix of Scorsese, sequels and bad movies.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Still can't believe Henry Hill was the crook who "partnered" with those Boston College players to shave points.

Go find the original SI article. I think it's the best investigative piece I've ever read in SI. I met the author when I was in college and the story behind the story was almost as crazy. He went to the airport and was met by a handler for the FBI who brought him to where Hill was in hiding. Just crazy stuff.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Go find the original SI article. I think it's the best investigative piece I've ever read in SI. I met the author when I was in college and the story behind the story was almost as crazy. He went to the airport and was met by a handler for the FBI who brought him to where Hill was in hiding. Just crazy stuff.

If only SB NATION was around back then, we could have gotten 10,000 words on that trip to the airport.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

He retired in 1999 and I think has only done cameos, small parts or Snickers commercials since.

His bio said he starred in some movie in 2010 that I've never heard of.

He was never one of those guys who worked a ton, even after Raging Bull. I'm assuming that was by choice.

Right after Lethal Weapon 2/Goodfellas/Home Alone, he worked a ton, but most of those look like big paycheck films. It looks like a mix of Scorsese, sequels and bad movies.

He also has a reputation of being difficult to work with.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Apparently, part of his "retirement" involved making a terrible rap song:

 

[John]

If you haven't read the book, Wiseguy, by Nicholas Pileggi, it's worth your time. You realize Henry Hill was incredibly full of it, but it's a fun read if you like mob stuff. Even better is The Good Rat, by Jimmy Breslin.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

If only SB NATION was around back then, we could have gotten 10,000 words on that trip to the airport.

Or if he worked for the Tampa Bay Times he could have written about how scarred he was by the whole experience.

 

[Webster]

Maybe he's the rare actor who saved his money. I know he always showed up at golf pro-ams or celebrity tournaments so he didn't totally disappear.

 

[clintrichardson]

SI story is fantastic. Apparently the story came out because feds were questioning hill about the lufthansa job and he had to explain where he was the days after it was pulled. so he told them about how he was arranging point shaving on bc basketball games.

How I Put The Fix In In this exclusive story, informer Henry Hill asserts that he and his associates rigged nine Boston College basketball games in 1978-79 by inducing BC players to shave points - SI.com

 

[Webster]

The numbers which they were talking about in the 30 for 30 were simply not to be believed. No one was taking that sort of action on regular season college games without the ability to lay most of it off.